Includes bibliographic references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: The Wisdom of a Microscopic Species -- Evolutionary Biology Explains Bacterial Adaptability -- The Ancestral Microbiome -- Early Factors Influencing the Microbiome -- Cracking the Codes: From Human Genome to Human Microbiome -- Beyond Bacteria:- Those Other "Omes" -- The Microbiome Hypothesis: The Epigenetic Role of the Microbiome -- Part Two: The Microbiome's Role in Disease -- The Microbiome and Gut Inflammatory Disorders -- The Microbiome and Obesity -- The Microbiome and Autoimmunity -- The Microbiome and Neurological or Behavioral Disorders -- Chapter Eleven: The Microbiome and Environmental Enteropathy -- The Microbiome and Cancer -- Part Three: Manipulating the Microbiome to Maintain Health -- From Association to Causation: A New Approach to Microbiome Composition and Function in Disease Development -- Preventive Medicine: Monitoring the Microbiome for Disease Prediction and Interception --Treatments for Disease: Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics -- Microbiome Research in Gut-Brain Axis Diseases: Psychobiotics -- Artificial Intelligence and the Microbiome -- Maintaining a Resilient Microbiome Through Old Age.